If you want to know about happiness ask someone who's poor

Outside Western countries people are a lot happier. Developing world nations score better than european ones in international psychiatric studies.

It's not just schizophrenia. Depression and anxiety are far less common.

I remember a story someone told me once. For some reason it seems relevant but I can't think why. A wild rabbit is standing near me in the park I'm sitting in.

Two business men went on holiday to somewhere near the sea. They rented a fishing boat and spoke with the captain. He was a genial type and he seemed surprisingly intelligent for a man who drives a fishing boat all day.

They asked him why he didn't get a proper job in the city. The man looked puzzled. He asked them why he would want that.

They said with a job he could have money. He could have a good job, a career and go on holiday. He could buy the best rods and fish in a tropical paradise 4 weeks a year.

He looked at them and paused. They looked puzzled.